Calvin decided to choose a thesis that confronted “death of the soul on the sole grounds of Scripture and of the testimonies of the early Church.” The thesis statement is “ considered it his duty to take up the pen in defense of the true doctrine, namely that the soul neither sleeps nor dies at bodily death, but remains fully alive as it is taken up in the Lord.” In the letter that introduces “Psychopannychia,” Calvin quotes and cites a few precedents for the doctrines that he opposes. “Psychopannychia” argues against the Anabaptists about soul-sleep and how it cannot apply to Christian life and is in fact heresy to the Holy Scriptures. In order to prove that Scripture is in the ultimate source to theological understandings, Calvin created
